http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Seb_down_under/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Seb_down_under en-us Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:58:29 +0000 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:58:29 +0000 so here it starts... the semester is over at last. the last two weeks were really stressing me out with exams in all three core units whithin 10 days. i don't think that i have ever felt so stressed by university before. the good thing about it is the fact that now everything is finished. no more assignments due no exams during a second period just plain three months of sweet idleness and a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-2248.html 0500hThis is not my time of the day... anyway i have to get out of my bed jump under the shower have a small breakfast and then meet with the girls Sandra Marijke Christina to catch our taxi that will take us to Wellington station in central Perth. This is the pickup point where we will get on the bus later more properly referred to as the truck. The taxi is there as ordered and we ar http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-2364.html Lynton Station to Nanga BayAnother early start8230 We have to hit the road early so that we can make it to our next destination during the daytime. In Australia it is absolutely not recommended to drive during the night as many accidents happen with cattle sheep feral goats and 8211 of course 8211 kangaroos. Just take a look to the left and the right of the roads when driving through http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-2409.html Nanga Bay to Waroora StationI wake up due to the noise made by my fellow group members packing their stuff. This means I am a bit late 8211 probably due to the many beers in the hot spa. I have to hurry to grab some breakfast jump under the shower and pack my bags. I seem to have earned myself a reputation for always being the last one on the truck and I hear the first comments about the 82 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-2421.html Warroora Station via Coral Bay to ExmouthAgain we have to get up early this morning as another long stint up north is waiting for us. As Christina8217s and my room is right next door to the communal kitchen we wake up as the first people from our group start preparing breakfast. I remember that I made the foolish promise to cook pancakes for everyone. Well this means playing the chef for 15 p http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Exmouth/blog-2496.html Exmouth to GeraldtonNot much to report about this day. We have to leave early again as we have to make 850km today. It8217s my turn to ride in the passenger seat of the truck and to engage our driver in conversation to make sure that he does not fall asleep. This turns out to be very interesting as Scott and I get to share some parts of our life8217s stories. In the evening we arrive at the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Exmouth/blog-2498.html Geraldton To PerthThis is our last day on the NortWest trip. Most of the time on the truck is spent with exchanging contact details and sharing further travel plans. Before we arrive in Perth we have a stop at the Yanchep National Park where we have lunch watch the Koalas and get introduced to a bit of Aboriginal culture. All of us are very tired and exhausted and longing for a long shower and http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Perth/blog-2499.html So I have made it across Australia still a concept that for me as a European is hard to grasp... you sit in an aeroplane for 45 hrs fly across a continent and still you are in the same country. Hard to imagine.I stayed last night at Barnaby Anna's place got picked up by the taxi and arrived in time at the Perth Domestic Airport. Funnily this terminal is much much busier than the internati http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Brisbane/blog-3097.html Time for an update on my tour up the east coast of Australia...At the moment I am in Airlie Beach the gate to the Withsunday Islands. I arrived last friday after a long ride on the Oz bus coming up from Dingo that's another story to be told at another time. After a night out with two dutch guys I met a couple of days before while staying in the same dorm room and who are also travelling with http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Airlie-Beach/blog-3467.html It is just a couple of hours left for me here on the northeastern coast of Australia. I am currently sitting in the internet cafe of Gilligan's Backpackers Resort in Cairns. This is probably the flashiest backpacker's place I have been to so far. Very good and clean rooms well trained staff etc. Still it somehow feels wrong. I think it is because I'm a bit old fashioned and have this image of ba http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-3699.html